Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE last hope has gone for the eight small rural schools facing closure in the south of the province . |
| 2 | At last the tide has turned for the unsung aircraft of 1940 . |
| 3 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
| 4 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 5 | Since 1984 the British Medical Association has campaigned for the minimum age for the sale of tobacco to be raised to 18 years . |
| 6 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 7 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the third month running . |
| 8 | An analysis of soil samples from a Kurdish village has proved for the first time that in 1988 Iraqi armed forces used nerve gas as well as mustard gas in air raids against civilians . |
| 9 | Under headlines such as ‘ Fiend 's third victim ’ ( Daily Mirror ) and ‘ Terror of tape bondage rapist ’ ( Sun ) , it was noted how ‘ a sticky-tape sex-fiend has struck for the third time ’ bringing ‘ terror to a triangle of Hampshire towns ’ . |
| 10 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 11 | Having considered the potential benefits of offering discounts for full payment of Council Tax the Council has decided for the first year that it is not beneficial and that therefore no discounts will be offered for full payment . |
| 12 | No parent needs to pay for the essential items . |
| 13 | The angular brackets denote averaging due to chain polydispersity in the sample and the bar indicates averaging for the many conformational sizes available to chains of the same molar mass . |
| 14 | In Guatemala , a beautiful country with a superficial air of tranquillity , the civil war has lasted for the past 30 years . |
| 15 | I took that line , so the main , the main character goes skiing for the first time , ca n't do it , and is frustrated because everybody else around him can do it including his girlfriend which er adds insult to injury and there is in there of course , a very attractive dashing Austrian ski instructor ; that 's the catalyst really for the drama . |
| 16 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 17 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 18 | The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade . |
| 19 | Dosifey , in his turn , risks much when sung by Nikolai Ohotnikov with a more human , troubled manner than is usual : his Act 1 prayer is beautifully done , but though it is an intelligent idea to seem to lead the Old Believers out of gentleness and a calmly assured faith , the music does ask for the inspired determination that finally takes them into the fire . |
| 20 | THE on-going recession means to respite for the hard pressed Citizens Advice Bureau . |
| 21 | An S-A-S officer who led a mission to prevent the Gulf conflict spreading throughout the Middle East has revealed for the first time what happened behind enemy lines . |
| 22 | On December 29th Richard Gephardt , majority leader in the House , said that if the president waged war without a congressional resolution , ‘ Congress has to reach for the only tool left to it , which is to cut off the funding of the war . ’ |
| 23 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 24 | This carefully documented book makes known for the first time a major work executed by Bakst at the end of his life : his seven scenes from the ‘ The Sleeping Beauty ’ , a tale which fascinated him throughout his career . |
| 25 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 26 | The Paraguayans , says Obdulio Menghi of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , " are working like never before , because of the professional and political [ commitment ] that the country has assumed for the first time . " |
| 27 | The ends of the coil should be soldered to the termination strips to allow for the later attachment of heavier gauge connecting cable . |
| 28 | TelecomAsia Corp Public Co Ltd , which is installing 2m telephone lines in Bangkok and its suburbs , will offer 222m shares to the public by October this year.The company plans to apply for the public offering with the Thai Securities & Exchange Commission ; Salomon Brothers is the firm 's foreign underwriter . |
| 29 | One reason why V remains relatively stable in the long run , despite an increase in money supply , is that sufficient time has elapsed for the direct mechanism to have worked fully through . |
| 30 | A resolution was passed at the 1897 Congress that ‘ the time has arrived for the direct representation of the cooperative movement in Parliament ’ . |